It turns out that my predictions for this year’s Man Booker Prize short list weren’t very good!  I correctly predicted A Little Life and A Brief History of Seven Killings, but that was it.

The final short list is:

• A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
• The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
• A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
• The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
• Satin Island by Tom McCarthy

I think that this is a really interesting mix, and I’m going to try and read them all before the winner is announced on 13 October.  If I had to make an early call, I’d go for A Brief History of Seven Killings to win, but I may revise that when I’ve read more of the short list!